MBA 5101 unit III powerpoint and DQ question

0:00 Hello, welcome to the Unit III discussion. And the discussion will focus primarily 0:06 on corporate responsibility by picking a company and looking at their website, or 0:11 you can even use books if you have any of those, or trade magazines, the library 0:16 for example. The idea here is not to invest a lot of time in researching, but the 0:21 idea is to get a nice company which can give you more feedback and information on 0:28 how they implement the corporate responsibility. Some deal with more services, 0:34 some deal with how to impact saving environment, or how to reduce their footprint. Others 0:40 actually give specific funding to certain charities and causes. The idea 0:46 here is to sit there and get a very good concept of what they do and see if their 0:50 strategy is working, or not. Does it help with what they're intended goals are; and 0:55 what are their goals? Are they there for a tax break? Are they there for public 0:58 relations? Are they there truly to make a difference? And there may be blends of 1:02 that, of those goals, there might be something to 1:06 explore. Then sit there and think about well, how does this strategy work, and would it work with 1:11 other places, or does it not work? 1:13 It is specific to that company? So it's a just a good discussion you may have run into 1:17 companies, as a consumer, or may have worked for companies. For example I 1:21 worked for Amazon.com, and there's a lot of things that they have done over the 1:26 years for incentive programs for charities, like the Smile program. I also 1:32 started the global program of the Green Amazon.com, which was later changed to 1:36 Amazon Green, which was a strictly business concept of how to save the 1:42 environment, or to lessen the impact of the company on the environment, based on 1:46 business principles of profit. So there's different types of ways of doing that. 1:49 But if you were to read about the program they don't talk about that. So, 1:53 that might be something to explore as well. So, the idea here is when you're 1:57 doing the discussion, you do your own research, or bring your own experiences into 2:03 It. But also look at other people's stories and some of their ideas and then 2:07

maybe discuss how those things could work and 2:09 ebb and flow in different situations. Thank you, and if you need any help please 2:13 reach out to your professor of the class.